TY - JOUR ID - 2771 TI - A Feasibility Study of the Technologies for Deep Ethane Recovery from the Gases Produced in One of the Iran Southern Fields JO - Iranian Journal of Oil and Gas Science and Technology JA - IJOGST LA - en SN - 2345-2412 AU - Najibi, Seyed Hesam AU - Darabi, Hamid AU - Kamali, Mohammad Javad AD - Petroleum University of Technology AD - Islamic Azad University, Bushehr Y1 - 2012 PY - 2012 VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 13 EP - 24 KW - Natural Gas Liquid KW - Ethane Recovery KW - GSP KW - RSV Process KW - CRR Process DO - 10.22050/ijogst.2012.2771 N2 - Recently, due to the very good market in ethane as a feedstock for petrochemical complexes, there are some plans to make a deep ethane recovery from the gases produced in Iran southern fields. In this work, the feasibility of different technologies for deep ethane recovery from a specified feed gas produced in one of the Iran southern fields is reviewed. Three different processes are selected and simulated for the specified feed gas. These processes are compared from technical and economic viewpoints and the advantages and disadvantages are discussed. The results show that RSV and CRR processes are technically more feasible for high levels of ethane recovery (greater than 95%). The economic evaluations show that the CRR process is the most appropriate one for the feed gas specified in this study. UR - https://ijogst.put.ac.ir/article_2771.html L1 - https://ijogst.put.ac.ir/article_2771_3738f5172b125f364fc2bb2f7df8747f.pdf ER -